Street
Preachers Assault Mardi Gras
MOBILE,
ALABAMA- Street preachers from all over the United States converged
upon Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana for the Most
Asinine Riotously Depraved
Infidel’s Gay Rebellion
And Sin festival of the year.
Street Preachers Fellowship Cabinet members Dan Gowen, Stephen
McRae, Greg Davis and the Director joined with some of the finest
men to ever have to die with, or go to jail with in America to
preach to the hundreds of thousands of daily degenerate drunkards
and sodomites attending the annual Mardi Gras festivals. Twenty
four soldiers of the cross surrounding one million drunks from
the inside, and not a man flinching.
“Men
that have hazarded their lives
for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
-Acts 15:26
Under
the able leadership of Brother Rueben Israel SPF Statewide Director
from California, that small band of preachers, waded into the
throngs of maddening, riotous drunkards, whores, sodomites and
fornicators, preaching the word of God, with signs following,
“terrible as an army with banners” (Song of Solomon
6:4, 10).
Street Preachers with Backs against the Wall
“Stand and Fight the good Fight”
SPF
Director Ron McRae, with three other cabinet members made the
trip south, meeting first with Brothers Kevin Deegan, Scott Bowman,
and Al Rodriguez on Sunday in Mobile, Alabama to preach to the
thousands gathered for drunkenness, revelry and riot. Though not
as numerous as New Orleans, eight men were able to put to flight
ten thousand. Marching into the throng with banners waving, the
five street preachers could barely gain their way down the street
to where they set up preaching in the midst of an intersection,
and were quickly aligned on two sides of the intersection by Mobile
Policeman on horseback, and foot, with riot gear to protect them
from the drunken mobs that quickly formed around them. Utilizing
Brother Greg Davis’ preaching stool, they mounted quickly
and began to preach with banners waving. Here the crowd was more
subdued, much to the credit of the Mobile Police Department, which
soundly pounded several hecklers and drunks. One poor slosh, after
being warned by the mounted horse supervisor to leave, was soundly
drug away by the nap of his neck when he lunged twice into SPF
Director McRae during the preaching, attempting to get to preacher
that was speaking.
Cabinet Adviser Greg Davis preaching in Mobile
Though
the streets were filled with revelers when the street preachers
marched into their midst, after an hour of preaching, there remained
only a few hundred, with the usual number of liberal, drunk “Christians”
remaining late to argue with the street preachers over “driving
people away from Christ”.
On Monday, all traveled to New Orleans, joining with Brother Reuben
Israel, who for 18 years has taken to the streets of New Orleans
at Mardi Gras. Brother Kevin Deegan from Buffalo, Bruce Perrault,
Dave Hance and Ted Snyder from Rochester, New York; Brothers Al
Rodriguez, Grant Chisholm and Terry O’Neil from Texas, along
with Brother Mark Diener and Jerry Fennell from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and “Cowboy” Scott Bowman from Tennessee who alternated
between Street Preacher, body blocker and human bull dozer. SPF
Director McRae with Dan Gowen and Stephen McRae were new to Mardi
Gras, and found the customary recon hit and run ambushes difficult
to adjust to for long winded street preachers. Fortunately, Brother
Israel was gracious enough, if the Anabaptists were crazy enough
to venture down into Bourbon street, to allow the liberty to frontal
attack the masses in the very heart of their open depravity. Venturing
into the throng, “those three” (2 Samuel 23:16-19)
discovered one boarded up store front in the middle of Bourbon
Street, that allowed them to stand with their backs against a
brick wall for protection from behind. And standing upon their
rolling pulpit box, they began “holding forth the word of
life”, and as anticipated, were quickly boxed in and surrounded
on three sides. O, these are the greatest days to be a preacher
of the gospel!! There is not one Fundamental gas bag stand for
shew that equals the wonder and power of God, when three men stand
for Christ in the midst of 4,000 who don’t.
As the preaching began, so began the fuselage assault upon the
preachers, with beer cans, bottles and thousands of necklace beeds
being thrown at a mighty rate, so that within 30 minutes of beginning
to preach, the sidewalk beneath the preacher’s feet was
three inches deep in debris being flung at them. But O, how they
preached! And as they preached, they prayed, and after two hours
of continual preaching “in defense of the gospel”,
down the midst of Bourbon Street came God’s Bright Light
reaction force, with banners waving, to help reinforce their Brethren
in the midst of the angry mob. It is a faithful saying, and worthy
of all acceptation that Brothers Kevin Deegan and Scott Bowman
can physically plow through the thickest mob to reach their Brethren
in need.
20 year old Stephen McRae preaching in “The Valley of Decision”
It was reported by some who witnessed the same, “Those preachers
are about near causing a riot down there on Bourbon Street. But
God helping them, they sure can preach!” Ever dodged a beer
bottle for God? Though many were thrown, only two found any kind
of a mark, with Brother Grant Chisholm taking a full, unopened
can in the cheek, thrown like a baseball; and Stephen McRae taking
a bottle launched from a balcony at Brother Rueben Israel, which
was deflected off the top of the young man’s head, leaving
a good size knot, but the lad rubbed it off, and carried on. Brother
Grant was hit the hardest, but it only interrupted his preaching
for about 10 seconds. Said SPF Director concerning Brother Grant,
“Praise God, that young man can preach! You get him mad,
and he can literally preach 500 people back ten feet, and hold
them there!”
Are
there no soldiers of God, who are rusting away in their armor
at the First Church of Laodecia, doing something that others would
do if they left it, and came out into the highways to fight for
Jesus Christ against sin and depravity beyond description?